What are the 3 flavors in rainbow ice cream?

Deusfaux

Or are they only colored differently?

Everyone knows neapolitan is a mix of vanilla strawberry and chocolate...

What's rainbow?!

I'm talking about the kind that looks like this:

Aurin

Strawberry, lime, and orange maybe?

Deusfaux

its a bit hard to google for since there are several ice cream related companies with rainbow in the name

or there's other kinds of rainbow flavor, apparently.

Mushiwulf

It looks like vanilla spumoni. Spumoni is normally chocolate, strawberry and pistachio. Maybe this just replaces the chocolate with vanilla. Otherwise, I don't know if I have run into a specific set of rainbow ice cream colors. I imagine it could be anything the maker wanted. Where have you run into it?

JNighthawk

As Aurin said, typically rainbow is strawberry, lime, and orange sherbert.

deadonthestreet

Yeah, that looks like sherbet (not sherbert) instead of ice cream.

Deusfaux

I guess it's more common in Canada?

I have the usual 4 litre pail of it made by the usual Lucerne

Aurin

Well... googling about a bit for the crazy Canadians...

http://www.penny.ca/Safeway.htm

Is it sherbet? Because on there it looks like it might be called a Triple Treat by them. >.> Other than that, I would just call it uh... rainbow sherbet I guess. :P

Doc

It's strawberry, lime, and orange.

Those three "flavors" have very little to do with the fruits they represent. Does orange sherbert taste like the orange fruit? Hell no? It tastes like the orange color might if it were made into a flavor. Same for the "lime" and "strawberry."

Deusfaux

hmm. what about this sickly grey it turns when spun together with my spoon?

I'm satisfied with the strawberry lime orange mostly... except this particular brand makes it look more yellow than orange. ill upload a photo later

SeñorAmor

I thought it was raspberry; not strawberry.

embrik

SeñorAmor wrote: »

I thought it was raspberry; not strawberry.

Yeah, every time I've gotten it, it's been raspberry, lime and orange sherbet.

Drez

Deusfaux wrote: »

hmm. what about this sickly grey it turns when spun together with my spoon?

I'm satisfied with the strawberry lime orange mostly... except this particular brand makes it look more yellow than orange. ill upload a photo later

Grey is an unappetizing color. There's psychology at play here. Green and gray food are unappealing. So is blue food, I think. There have been studies. Hence food coloring.

embrik

Drez wrote: »

Deusfaux wrote: »

hmm. what about this sickly grey it turns when spun together with my spoon?

I'm satisfied with the strawberry lime orange mostly... except this particular brand makes it look more yellow than orange. ill upload a photo later

Grey is an unappetizing color. There's psychology at play here. Green and gray food are unappealing. So is blue food, I think. There have been studies. Hence food coloring.

Yeah, I almost vomited the first time I saw the blue and green ketchups. Totally unappealing to me.

vonPoonBurGer

Drez wrote: »

So is blue food, I think.

Yes, because very few edible foodstuffs are blue. Even blueberries are really more purple than blue. At a restaurant I worked at, they kept blue bandages around for this reason. If you cut yourself and needed a bandage, a blue one was really good to have around, because it would stand out if it ever somehow got into the food.

JNighthawk

deadonthestreet wrote: »

Yeah, that looks like sherbet (not sherbert) instead of ice cream.

From Wikipedia:

"It is usually spelled either sherbet or sherbert. In the US, the most common meaning of sherbet is a frozen dessert sorbet or a special kind of ice cream: see sherbet (U.S.)."

Deusfaux

Deusfaux

i'd believe raspberry over strawberry as i think its darker than the pink for the neopolitan by the same company.

the orange is more yellow though as you can see.

im not reopening this, just slapping a photo up for posterity's sake

ben0207

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

Drez wrote: »

So is blue food, I think.

Yes, because very few edible foodstuffs are blue. Even blueberries are really more purple than blue. At a restaurant I worked at, they kept blue bandages around for this reason. If you cut yourself and needed a bandage, a blue one was really good to have around, because it would stand out if it ever somehow got into the food.

These are actually food hygiene law in the UK.

Daenris

Deusfaux wrote: »

i'd believe raspberry over strawberry as i think its darker than the pink for the neopolitan by the same company.

the orange is more yellow though as you can see.

im not reopening this, just slapping a photo up for posterity's sake

Hmm... have you actually eaten it to check? I mean raspberry and strawberry should taste pretty different. Though I agree that it looks too dark to be strawberry.

In the original stock image the third color looks orange, but in that new picture you posted it looks pretty white.

Is this actually ice cream or is it sherbet? If it's sherbet, then yeah it's probably fruit flavors. If it's ice cream, then I wouldn't be so sure. Which is why I ask if you've actually eaten it now that you have a picture

Deusfaux

ice cream, for sure, and its less white than their vanilla is. i cant really taste cuz its all mixed in. its yummy though!